Eddy, Lauriston

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• Reference Number: 9616

Family/Spouse: Gardner, Eliza. Eliza was born on 16 Jan 1819 in Bowdoinham, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 9442

Jonathan married Moses, Lydia on 5 Dec 1805 in USA. Lydia (daughter of Moses, Samuel and Ballou, Lydia) was born in May 1786; died in 1871 in St. Jonsbury, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 42619

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LYDIA MOSES6, Samuel and Lydia Ballou5, Rev. Maturin4, Peter3, John2, Maturin1; b. in Warwick, Mass., on some day in May, 1786; m. 1st Zephaniah Kinsgley in said Warwick during the winter of 1801 or 1802, and soon after settled in Montpelier, Vt., where they had b. to them--

1938--1. Alonzo Kingsley, b. Mar. 23, 1804; m. Sophia H. Hill.


We will now let Alonzo give the family history pretty much in his own language, as found in his letter to Mr. Peck. "My father
had bought wild land in Montpelier, and had worked clearing the same for two seasons. I have heard my mother say that, when my father went to Montpelier, there were one framed house and thirty log houses in town. My father was killed by the fall of a tree in June, 1805. I was then 1 yr. and 3 mos. old. My mother was but 19 years old, the May before father died--left thus a widow in a new country, among almost entire strangers. Father's property, after being sold at less than half its worth and paying all his debts, left for my mother and myself a little over $500.00. My mother, being young and very good looking, with a little money, soon married again. She m. a widower, some 10 to 15 yrs. older than herself, who had three daughters that lived to be married, but all d. of consumption before 40 years of age. My mother's second husband was Jonathan Eddy. They were m. about 1807." Issue.--

1939--2. David Eddy, b. no date; d. at the age of 2 yrs.
1940--3. James Madison Eddy, b. no date; m. his cousin, Lydia Procto
1941--4. Lauriston Eddy, b. no date; m., d. in Boston, and left 1 son.


"Jonathan Eddy was a noble looking man, of more than ordinary intelligence, a good natural mechanic, but visionary--always building castles in the air that fell before they were finished." These peculiarities of the second husband naturally added more to the burdens than to the comfort of Mrs. Lydia. We do not find in Alonzo's letter the death-date of his step-father, Jonathan Eddy, but infer that he must have d. some years earlier than his wife. Alonzo states that she d. in St. Johnsbury, Vt., in 1871, a. about 84 yrs. Of his two half bros. that lived to marry, he said.--"James Madison Eddy resembled his father in all respects. He lived in St. Johnsbury, Vt. In 1871 he fell on the ice, injured his head, and at times seemed a little insane. Later he went to Boston, and has not been heard from since. He left a wife, but no chn. Lauriston Eddy, the youngest son, died in Boston in the year 1845 or 46. He was a good machinist, and left a wife and one son. I know little or nothing about mother or son, but understand the mother is a prudent, hard working woman--the son quite otherwise; yet that he has been married, and has one child."

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• Reference Number: 9340

David married Ormsbee, Keziah on 5 Apr 1764. Keziah (daughter of Ormsbee, Jacob and White, Mary) was born on 23 Feb 1739/40; died on 11 Feb 1771 in Rehoboth, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 61598

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• Reference Number: 63674

Samuel married Ballou, Lydia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 63675

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• Reference Number: 9300

Ebenezer married Leonard, Martha on 7 Oct 1734 in Bridgewater. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 56722

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• Reference Number: 61599

Jacob married White, Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 61600